RED BOOK 



OR 



HOW TO PLAY INDIAN 



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BY 

ERNEST THOMPSON SETON 




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THE RED BOOK 

OR 

HOW TO PLAY INDIAN 



DIRECTIONS FOR ORGANIZING 
A TRIBEOF BOY INDIANS, 
MAKING THEIR TEPEES ETC. 
IN TRUJ: INDIAN STYLE 



BY 

ERNEST THOMPSON SETON 



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New York 

Published by the Author 

1904 



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Copyright, 1903, by 
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Copyright, 1904, by 
Ernest Thompson Seton 



The Greenwich Press, New York 



TO ORGANIZE A BAND 
OF INDIANS 



CHE Woodcraft Indians have been organ- 
ized to give young people the advantages 
of camp life without its dangers. 

The Indian plan has been adopted in 
preference to others because its pictur- 
esqueness takes immediate and complete 
hold of the boys. 
Most boys love to play Indian and would like to 
learn more about doing it. They want to know 
about all the interesting Indian things that are 
possible for them to do. It adds a great pleasure 
to the lives of such boys when they know that 
they can go out in the holidays and camp in the 
woods just as the Indians did, and make all 
their own weapons in Indian style as well as rule 
themselves after the manner of a band of Redmen. 
Of course there are many bad Indians, and many 
bad things are done by nearly all Indians, but we 
wish to imitate the good things of good Indians. 
Our watchword then is: "The best things of the 



4 TO ORGANIZE A BAND OF INDIANS 

best Indians," and our object: "The study and 
pleasures of Woodcraft." 

Our tribes are trained in Woodcraft and in Self- 
government. By Woodcraft we mean out-door 
athletics, nature study and camping as a fine art. 

Photography is recognized as a branch of nature 
study, and camper-craft is made to include the 
simplest methods of triangulation, starcraft, find- 
ing one's way, telling direction, sign-language, as 
well as many branches of Indian craft. 

About one hundred deeds or exploits are recog- 
nized in these departments and the braves are 
given decorations that show what they have 
achieved. 

The plan aims to give the young people "some- 
thing to do, something to think about and some- 
thing to enjoy in the woods," with a view always 
to character building. 

First: Get the boys (or girls) together, any num- 
ber from three upwards, and by popular vote elect 
the following officers : 

Head War Chief elected by the Tribe. He should 
be strong as well as popular, because his duties are 
to lead and to enforce the laws. He is head of the 
Council. 

Second War Chief, to take the Head Chief's place 
when he is absent, otherwise he is merely a Coun- 
cillor. 

Third War Chief, for leader when the other two 
are away. 



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Wampum Chief. He has charge of the money 
and public property of the Tribe, except the records. 
He obeys the Head Chief and Council. He ought 
to have a lock box or small trunk to keep valu- 
ables in. Squaws are eligible. 

Chief of the Painted Robe, or Feather-tally. He 
keeps the tribal records, including the Redbook, 
the Roster or Roll, the Winter Count, or Record of 
Camps and Seasons, and the Feather-tally or 
record of honors and exploits. He enters nothing 
except on instructions from the Council. He 
should be an artist. Squaws are eligible. 

Chief of the Council-Fire. It is his exclusive 
privilege to make fire. He must do it without 
matches. He must also see that the camp and 
woods are kept clean. Squaws are eligible. 

Sometimes one Brave or Chief holds more than 
one of these last three offices. 

The Head Chief may add a Chief Medicine Man 
or Woman to the Council without regard to age, 
attainments or position. (In one case the Head 
Chief made his own mother Medicine Woman.) 
And the tribe may vote in a second medicine man. 
Their duty is to advise the Head Chief. j 

Add to these not more than twelve elected- 
Councillors and all the Sachems (see p. 24). 

All are under the Chief. AH disputes, etc., are 
settled by the Chief and Council. The Council 
makes the laws and fixes the dues. The Chief 
enforces the laws. 



6 TO ORGANIZE A BAND OF INDIANS 

All officers are elected for one year or until 
their successors are chosen. The election to take 
place as soon as possible after Spring Day, the 
first of March. 

(Whenever in doubt we try to follow the U. S. 
Constitution.) 

VOW OF THE HEAD CHIEF 

(To be signed with his name and totem in the tally-book.) 

I solemnly promise to maintain the laws and to 
see fair play in all the doings of the Tribe. 

VOW OF EACH BRAVE ON JOINING 

(To be signed with the name and totem of each in the tally-book.) 

I solemnly promise that I will obey the Chief and 
Council of my Tribe, and if I fail in my duty I will 
appear before the Council and submit without 
murmuring to their decision. 

LAWS 

i. Don't rebel. Rebellion by any one against any 
decision of the Council is punishable by expulsion. 
Absolute obedience is always enforced. 
|| 2. Don't kindle a wild fire. To start a wild fire- 
that is, to set the woods or prairies afire — is a crime 
against the State, as well as the Tribe. Never 
leave a fire in camp without some one to watch it. 

3. Don't harm song-birds. It is forbidden to 
kill or injure or frighten song-birds, or to disturb 
their nests or eggs, or to molest squirrels. 



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4. Don't break the Game Laws. 

5 . Don't cheat. Cheating in the games or records 
or wearing honors not conferred by the Council is a 
crime. 

6. Don't bring firearms of any kind into camp. 
Bows and arrows are enough for our purpose. 

7. Don't make a dirty camp. Keep the woods 
clean by burying all garbage. 

8. No smoking (for those under 18). 

9. No fire-water in camp. 

Punishments are meted out by the Chief and 
Council after a hearing of the case. They consist 
of: 

Exclusion from the games for a time. 

Of tasks of drudgery and camp service. 

Of reduction in rank. 

The extreme penalty is banishment from the 
Tribe. 

TOTEM 

The totem of the whole nation of Seton Indians 
(as they have called themselves) is the White or 
Silver Buffalo. 

Each Band needs a totem of its own in addition. 
This is selected by the Council, and should be some- 
thing easy to draw. Each brave adds a private 
totem of his own, usually a drawing of his name. 

The first of these Indians took as their totem a 
Blue Buffalo and so became Blue Buffalo Band, and 



8 TO ORGANIZE A BAND OF INDIANS 

Deerfoot, the Chief, uses the Blue Buffalo totem 
with his own added underneath. 

Any bird, animal, tree or flower will do. It is 
better if it have some special reason. 

One Tribe set out on a long journey to look for a 
totem. They agreed to take the first living wild 
thing that they saw and knew the name of. They 
traveled all one day and saw nothing to suit, but 
next day in a swamp they startled a Blue Heron. 
It went off with a harsh cry. So they became the 
"Blue Herons," and adopted as a warcry the croak 
of the bird — "Hrrrrr — Blue Heron." Another 
Band have the Wolf totem. Another the Flying 
Eagle, and yet another the Snapping-turtle. 



DECORATIONS 

The most important is, of course, the War Bonnet 
of Eagle feathers. This is a full record of the 
owner's exploits, as well as a grand decoration. It 
is fully described in "The Ladies' Home Journal" 
for July, 1902. 

The feathers are made of white goose quill 
feathers, the tip dyed black, a leather loop is lashed 
to the quill end of each to fasten it onto the hat 
band. Each feather stands for an exploit and is 
awarded by the Council. If it was Grand Coup or 
High Honor the feather had a tuft of red horsehair 
lashed on the top. 



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The feathers are held in place by a lace through 
the bottom loop to hold them to the body of the 
cap, and a stout thread through the middle of each 
midrib, stringing them together and holding them 
the right distance apart. 

One cannot always wear the war bonnet, yet 
most want to wear a visible record of their rank. 
To meet this need we have a badge adapted from an 
old Iroquois silver brooch. 

In this the White or Silver Buffalo represents the 
whole nation. The owner can put his initials on the 
Buffalo's forehead, if desired. 

The pin in the middle is in the real Indian style. 
To fasten the brooch on you throw back the pin, 
then work a pucker of the coat through the opening 
from behind. When it sticks out far enough bend 
it to one side, pierce it with the pin, then put the 
pin down and work the pucker back smooth. This 
can never work loose or get lost. 

The rank of the wearer is thus shown : 



The ordinary brave or squaw as 
soon as admitted wears the simple 
badge, so— 




Ordinary Brave or Squaw. 



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Every one in the Council is a 
Councillor Chief, and adds a beard 
to the Buffalo, using silk, wool or 
thread through the nostrils. 



The Medicine Man adds a criss- 
cross from left eye to right nostril, 
and right eye to left nostril. Of 
course if he is on the Council he also 
adds the beard. 




Medicine Man 




Head War Chief. 



The Head Chief wears, in addi- 
tion to the beard, a horned shield. 
On the circle of the shield is en- 
graved the totem of the Tribe. 



The 



The horns are worn only by a Head Chief, 
following shows their importance : 

"No one wears the headdress surmounted with 
horns except the dignitaries who are very high in 



TO ORGANIZE A BAND OF INDIANS u 

authority and whose exceeding valor, worth and 
power are admitted by all the nation. 

"This man (Mah-to-toh-pa) was the only man in 
the nation who was allowed to wear the horns, and 
all, I found, looked upon him as the ieader who had 
the power to lead all the warriors in time of war." 
(Catlin, Vol. i, p. 103.) 

The second warchief wears the same badge as 
the first except that it has but one horn (the right) 
on the shield. 

The third warchief wears the same with left horn 
only on shield. 

Scalps. Each warrior wears a long tuft of horse- 
hair. This answers as his scalp. He can lose this 
only in an important competition, approved by the 
Council, in which he stakes his scalp against that of 
some other Brave. If he loses he surrenders his tuft 
to the winner and goes tuftless until the Council 
think proper to give him a new scalp. 

But the winner keeps the old scalp for a teepee 
or other decoration, and counts Coup or Grand 
Coup, as the Council may decide. The warrior 
without tuft cannot sit in Council or take part in 
the competitions. 






TEEPEES 



ANY famous campers have said that the 
^j4tT Indian teepee is the best known movable 
^ home. It is roomy, self- ventilating, can 

scarcely blow down, and is the only tent 
that admits of fire inside. 

Then why is it not everywhere used? 
Because of the difficulty of the poles. If 
on the prairie you must carry your poles. If in 
the woods you must cut them at each camp. 

General Sibley, the famous Indian fighter, in- 
vented a teepee with a single pole, and this is still 
used by our army. But it will not do for us. Its 
one pole is made in part of iron and is very cum- 
bersome, as well as costly. The "Sibley" is ugly, 
too, compared with a real teepee, and we are "Play- 
ing Injun," not soldier, so we shall stick to the 
famous and picturesque old teepee of the real Buf- 
falo Indians. 

In the "Buffalo days" this teepee was made of 
Buffalo skin; now it is made of some sort of canvas 
or cotton, but it is decorated much in the old style. 
I tried to get an extra fine one made by the Indians 
especially as a model for our boys, but I found that 



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13 



no easy matter. I could not go among the Red-folk 
and order it as in a department store. 

The making of a teepee was serious business, to 
be approached in a serious manner. Only an expe- 
rienced old squaw could do it, and she must dream 
and think, for perhaps weeks, first; then having 
worked out a plan in her mind she must call in a 
dozen of her neighbors to make a "bee" and carry 
out her exact plan. Any change is "bad medicine" 
— that is, "unlucky." I waited a year and the 
tent-making spirit kept away; none of the squaws 
felt moved to build a teepee, and I was in a quan- 
dary. 

Gne of the Chiefs suggested that if I waited 
another year I might get one. When the Buffalo 
came back I should be sure of it. 




Cut 



At length I solved the. difficulty by buying one 
ready made from Thunder Bull, a Chief of the 
Cheyennes. 

It appears at the left end of the row in the above 
cut. This is an 18-foot teepee and is large enough for 



14 TO ORGANIZE A BAND OF INDIANS 

twenty boys to live in. A large one is easier to keep 
clear of smoke, but most boys will prefer a smaller 
one, as it is much handier, cheaper and easier to 
make. I shall therefore give the working plan of a 
io-foot teepee of the simplest form — the raw ma- 
terial of which can be bought new for less than $4.00. 
This is big enough for four, or perhaps five, boys. 

It requires 22 square yards of 6 or 8-ounce duck, 
heavy unbleached muslin or Canton flannel (the 
wider the better, as that saves labor in making up) , 
which costs about $3.00; 75 feet of 3-16-inch 
clothesline, 15 cents; string for sewing rope ends, 
etc., s cents. 

Of course one can often pick up second-hand ma- 
terials that are quite good and cost next to nothing. 
An old wagon cover, or two or three old sheets, will 
make the teepee, and even if they are patched it is all 
right, the Indian teepees are often mended where 
bullets and arrows went through them. Scraps of 
rope, if not rotted, will work in well enough. 

Supposing you have new material to deal with. 
Get it machine-run together, 20 feet long and 10 
feet wide. Lay this doWn perfectly flat (Cut VI). 
On a peg or nail at A in the middle of the long side 
put a 10-foot cord loosely, and then with a burnt 
stick in a loop at the other end draw the half-circle 
BCD. Now cut out the two little triangles at A 
each 6 inches on each side. Cut the canvas 
along these dotted lines. From the scraps left 
over cut two pieces for smoke-flaps, as shown. On 



TO ORGANIZE A BAND OF INDIANS 15 

the long corner of each (H in No. i, I in. No. 2) a 
small three-cornered piece is sewed, to make a 
pocket for the end of the pole. 

Now sew the smoke-flaps to the cover so that 
M L of No. 1 is fitted to P E, and N of No. 2 to 
QG. 

Two inches from the edge B P make a double row 
of holes; each hole is 2 inches from its mate, and 
each pair is 5 inches from the next pair, except at 
the 2-foot space marked ''door," where no holes are 
needed. 

The holes on the other side, Q D, must exactly 
fit on these. 

At A fasten a strong 4 -foot cord by the 
middle. Fasten the end of a 10-foot cord to J and 



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Cut VI— Pattern of XO-Foot Tepee. 



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another to K. Hem a rope all along on the bottom 
BCD. Cut 1 2 pieces of rope each about 15 inches 
long, fasten one very firmly to the canvas at B, 
another at the point D, and the rest at regular dis- 
tances to the hem-rope along the edge between, 
for peg-loops. The tepee cover is now made. 
(See Cut VII.) 

For the door (some never use one) take a limber 
sapling J-inch thick and 51-2 feet long, also one 22 
inches long. Bend the long one into a horseshoe 
and fasten the short one across the ends (A in Cut 
VII). On this stretch canvas, leaving a flap at the 
top, in the middle of which two small holes are 
made (B, Cut VII) so as to hang the door on a 
lacing-pin. Nine of these lacing-pins are needed. 
They are of smooth, round, straight hardwood, a 
foot long and 1-4-inch thick. The way of skewer- 
ing the two edges together is seen in the Omaha 
teepee at the end of the line in Cut IX. . 

Now all the necessary parts of the teepee cover 
are made and it appears as in Cut VII. But no 
real Indian would live in a teepee which was not 
decorated in some way and it is well to begin the 
adorning while the cover is flat on the ground. 
From the centre A at 7 feet distance draw a circle; 
draw another at 6 1-2 feet, another at 3 feet and 
another at 2 1-2 feet (Cut VIII) . Make the lines any 
color you like, put a row of spots or zigzags in each 
of the 6-inch bands; then on the side, midway 
between A and C. draw a i-foot circle. 




Cut VIII 



TO ORGANIZE A BAND OF INDIANS 19 

In the old days every Indian had a "coat-of- 
arms" or "totem" and this properly appeared on 
his tent. This little circle is a good place to paint 
your totem. The spaces at each side can be 
covered with figures showing the owner's adven- 
tures; using flat colors with black outlines, but 
without shading. Oil colors rubbed on with a stiff 
brush and little oil are nearest to the old Indian 
style. 

The pictures are usually about the middle of the 
wall, because when high they get smoked, and when 
low they get dirty. 

In addition to being painted the teepee is usually 
decorated with Eagle feathers, tufts of horsehair, 
beadwork,etc. In Cut VIII the owner's crest, a "Blue 
Buffalo," is shown in the small circle, and from that 
are three tufts for tails. On the teepees in cuts V 
and IX are shown many different styles of decora- 
tion and all of them were from real teepees. Scalp- 
locks were also used, although horsetails are more 
often seen now. 

Twelve poles also are needed. They should be as 
straight and smooth as posssible; crooked* rough 
poles are signs of a bad housekeeper — a squaw is 
known by her teepee poles. They should be 13 or 14 
feet long and about 1 1-2 inches thick or less at the 
top. Two are for the smoke-vent; they may be 
more slender than the others. Last of all, make a 
dozen stout short pegs about 15 inches long and 
about 1 1-2 inches thick. 



20 TO ORGANIZE A BAND OF INDIANS 

Drive a small stake in the ground where the 
center of the teepee will come and about this as a 
center mark a circle, the same diameter as the tent. 
For a ten foot teepee a ten foot circle, etc. 

This is how the teepee is put up : — 

With one end of a twenty foot rope tie together 
three of the poles at a point as high as the width of 
the canvas. Set them as a tripod, their ends 
touching the edge of the circle. Then set up the 
other poles (except three, including the two 
slender ones,) for the frame of the teepee, their 
ends on the circumference of the circle, theii tops 
resting in the angles of the tripod. Now with the 
loose end of the twenty foot rope bind all the poles 
where they cross by walking several times around 
the frame, on the outside, and drawing the rope 
tight as you go. The loose end may then be left 
hanging down inside for an anchor. 

Now fasten the rope at A to the stout pole 
left over at a point 10 feet up. Raise this into its 
place and the teepee cover with it, opposite where 
the door is to be. Carry the two wings of the tent 
around till they overlap and fasten together with 
the lacing-pins. Put the end of a vent-pole in each 
of the vent-flap pockets, outside of the teepee. Peg 
down the edges of the canvas at each loop if a storm 
is coming, otherwise a few will do. Hang the door 
on a convenient lacing-pin. Drive a stout stake 
inside the teepee, tie the anchor rope to this and the 
teepee is ready for weather. In the center dig a 



TO ORGANIZE A BAND OF INDIANS 21 

hole 18 inches wide and 6 inches deep for the fire. 
The fire is the great advantage of the teepee, and 
the smoke the great disadvantage, but experience 
will show how to manage this. Keep the smoke- 
vent swung down wind, or at least quartering down. 
Sometimes you must leave the door a little open or 
raise the bottom of the teepee cover a little on the 
windward side. If this makes too much draft on 
your back stretch a piece of canvas between two or 
three of the poles inside the teepee, in front of the 
opening made and reaching to the ground. This is 
a lining or dew-cloth. The draft will go up behind 
this. 

By these tricks you can make the vent draw the 
smoke. But, after all, the main thing is to use only 
the best and dryest of wood. This makes a clear 
fire. There will always be more or less smoke 7 or 8 
feet up, but it worries no one there and it keeps the 
mosquitoes away. When these pests were very 
bad I used sometimes to ' 'smudge' ? my teepee — that 
is, throw an armful of green leaves or grass on the 
fire and then run out, close the door and smoke- 
vent tight, and wait an hour before reentering. 
The dense smoke would kill or drive out all the 
mosquitoes in the tent, and the rest of the night 
there was enough of it hanging around the vent to 
keep the little plagues away till morning. 

You should always be ready for a storm over 
night. Keep a stock of dry firewood in the teepee. 
You must study the wind continually and be 



22 TO ORGANIZE A BAND OF INDIANS 

weatherwise — that is, a woodcrafter — if you are to 
make a success of the teepee. 

And remember this : The Indians did not look for 
hardships. They took care of their health so as to 
withstand hardship when it came, but they made 
themselves as comfortable as possible. They never 
slept on the ground if they could help it. Catlin 
tells us of the beautiful 4-post beds the Mandans 
used to make in their lodges. The Blackfeet make 
neat beds of willow rods carefully peeled, and the 
Eastern Indians cut piles of pine and fir branches 
to keep them off the ground. Failing these they 
used hay or straw. The bed material should be 
kept together by small logs put at each side. 

During long heavy rains some of the Indians 
used to put a "bull-boat" over the smoke-vent of 
the lodge. We are sometimes forced to do the 
same. We sew canvas on a frame of willow hoops 
which is about 3 feet across and 18 inches deep. 
This sits on the top of the poles like a cap. 




Cut IX 



Lot 1 



A LIST OF THE EXPLOITS OR 

COUPS THAT ENTITLE THE 

BRAVE TO A DECORATION 



CHESE exploits are intended to distinguish 
those warriors who are first class or re- 
_______ markable in each department. They 

aa maybe called Honors and High Honors, 

* f * but the Plains Indians speak of their 

*V* exploits as Coup (pronounced coo) and 

Grand Coup. The Sioux, I am informed, 

use the French word coup, but call them 

"Jus-pee-na Coo" and ''Tonka Coo" the "Little 

Deed" and the "Big Deed." 

The decoraton for a Coup of Honor is an eagle 
feather for the war-bonnet or a wampum medal 
for the coat, or both. 

For the High Honor or Grand Coup the eagle 
feather has a red tuft of horsehair on the top, and 
the wampum medal has a red or yellow tassel from 
its centre. 

No one can count both Coup and Grand Coup or 
repeat their honor in the same department except 



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for Heroism in which each honor is added 
that previously worn. 

No honors are conferred unless the exploit has 
been properly witnessed or proven, as though for 
the century bar of the L. A. W. 

The exploits in the first group of Class i, Ath- 
letics, are meant for boys under 16, but all the 
others apply to all ages. 

Those with 40 grand coups are Sachems entitled 
to sit on the Council without election. They are 
Red Sachems, White Sachems or Blue Sachems, 
according to the class in which they have won 
most of their honors. 

CLASS I.— RED HONORS 

ATHLETICS 

(For boys under sixteen) 

1. Walk 3^ measured miles in 1 hour (heel and 
toe) to count coup or honor; or 4 miles to count 
grand coup or high honor. 

2. Walk J of a mile in 2^ minutes for coup; in 2 
minutes for grand coup. 

3. Walk 1 mile in 11 minutes for coup; in 10 
minutes for grand coup. 

4. Run 100 yards in 12 seconds for coup; in 11 
seconds for grand coup. 

5. Run 220 yards in J28 seconds J:or coup; in 26 
seconds for grand coup. 



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6 . Run a mile in 5 £ minutes for coup ; in 5 minutes 
for grand coup. 

7. High standing jump, 3 feet 4 inches for coup; 
3 feet 9 inches for grand coup. 

8. High running jump, 4 feet 6 inches for coup; 
5 feet for grand coup. 

9. Standing broad jump, 8 feet for coup; 9 feet 
for grand coup. 

10. Running broad jump, 16 feet for coup; 18 
for grand coup. 

11. Hammer-throw (12 lbs.), 80 feet for coup; 
90 for grand coup. 

12. Shot put (12 lbs.), 30 feet for coup; 35 for 
grand coup. 

13. Throwing the regular 4^-oz. baseball 50 
yards for coup; 65 for grand coup. 

17. One mile on bicycle, 3^ for coup; 3 minutes 
for grand coup. 

18. Skate 100 yards in 12 seconds for coup; 11 
seconds for grand coup. 

20. Row (single sculls) one mile in 15 minutes 
for coup; in 12 minutes for grand coup. 

21. Paddle (single) one mile in 20 minutes for 
coup; in 15 minutes for grand coup. 

22. Swim 100 yards in any time at all, to count 
coup ; or 200 in 4 minutes, to count grand coup. 

23. Go 400 yards in 6 minutes, running 100, 
rowing 100, walking 100, and swimming 100 (in 
any order), for coup; do it in 5 minutes, for grand 
coup. 



26 TO ORGANIZE A BAND OF INDIANS 

24. To catch 10 horses in corral, with 10 throws 
of the lasso, counts coup; to catch 10 on the range 
in 10 throws, counts a grand coup. 

25. To ride a horse one mile in 3 minutes, clear- 
ing a 4-foot hurdle, counts coup; to do it in 2 min- 
utes, clearing a 6-foot hurdle, grand coup. 



EYESIGHT 

31. To spot the Rabbit at 60 yards or to distin- 
guish six Pleiades and see clearly the "Pappoose 
on the Squaw's back," counts a coup; to spot the 
Rabbit at 75 yards and see seven Pleiades, counts 
a far-sight grand coup. (Those who habitually 
wear glasses may use them in this test.) 

3 2 . To make a 7 5 score in ten tries in the game 
of Quicksight with ten counters, counts coup; a 95 
score, counts a grand coup. 



HEROISM 

33. Honors are allowed for saving human life at 
risk of one's own; it is a coup or grand coup at the 
discretion of the Council. 

34. If a scalp is won by exceptional prowess, the 
winner counts coup or grand coup, as the Council 
may decide. 



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CLASS II.— WHITE HONORS 
CAMPER-CRAFT 

40. Come to camp through strange woods from 
a. point one mile off in 20 minutes, for coup; in 15, 
for grand coup. 

41. Light 10 camp fires in succession with 10 
matches, all at different places, all with stuff found 
in the woods by the boy himself, one at least to be 
on a wet day, for coup. If all ten are done on wet 
days, or if he does 20, of which two are on wet 
days, it counts grand coup. 

42. Light a fire with fire-drill or rubbing sticks, 
with material of one's own gathering, counts a 
coup; to do it in one minute, counts a grand coup. 

43. To chop down a 6-inch tree in 60 seconds, 
throwing it to drive a given stake, coup; in 45 
seconds, grand coup. 

44. Know and name 10 star groups, for coup; 
know 10 star groups and tell the names and some- 
thing about at least one star in each, for grand 
coup. 

45. Take the latitude from the stars at night 
with a cartwheel, or some home-made instrument, 
within 2 degrees of error, for coup; 1 degree, for 
grand coup. 

46. To guess one inch, one foot, one yard, one 
rod, one acre, 100 yards, 200 yards, one quarter- 
mile, one half-mile, and a mile, within 20 percent. 



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of average error, for coup; 10 per cent., for grand 
coup. 

47. To measure the height of a tree without 
climbing, or distance across a river, etc., without 
crossing, within 10 per cent, of error, for coup; 5 
per cent., for grand coup. 

48. In sign -talking, to know and use correctly 50 
signs, for coup; 100 signs, for grand coup. 

50. To make 20 different standard knots in a 
rope, for coup; 30, for grand coup. 

51. To catch a 2-pound trout on a 5-oz. rod with 
fiy, and without assistance, coup; a 3-pound 
trout, a grand coup. 

52. To cast a fiy on 5-oz. 9 -foot rod, 50 feet for 
coup; 75 for grand coup. 

53. To catch a 5-pound fish on a 5-oz. rod, grand 
coup. 

54. 55, 56, 57. The best dancer, trailer, singer or 
artist out of 250, counts coup; the best in 500, a 
grand coup. 

In these competitive coups the 250 or 500 warriors 
need not all be present, but they must be repre- 
sented by their best men. 



ARCHERY 

61. Make a total score of 300 with 60 shots (in 
one or two meets) 4-foot target at 40 yards for 
coup; make 400 for grand coup. 



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62. Shoot so fast as to have 6 arrows in the air 
at once, for coup; 7, for grand coup. 

63. Send an arrow 150 yards for coup; 200 for 
grand coup. 

64. To hit the Burlap Deer in the heart at 60 
yards first shot, counts a coup: at 75 yards, counts 
a grand coup. 



CLASS III.— BLUE HONORS ; 

NATURE STUDY 

71. Know and name correctly, i.e., with the 
accepted English names, according to any standard 
authority, 25 trees, and tell something interesting 
about them, counts coup; 50 for grand coup. 

72. Know and name correctly 50 of our wild 
flowers, for coup; 100, for grand coup. 

73. Know and name correctly 50 of our native 
birds as seen mounted in a museum, the female 
and young to count separately when they are 
wholly different from the male; this counts coup; 
100 birds, for grand coup. 

74. Know and name correctly 50 wild birds in 
the field; this counts coup; 100, grand coup. 

75. Recognize 50 wild birds by note, for coup; 
100, for grand coup. 

76. Know and name correctly 25 wild quad- 
rupeds for coup; know and name correctly 50, and 



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tell something interesting about each, for grand 
coup. 

77. Know and draw unmistakable pictures of 
25 tracks of our four-footed animals, for coup; of 
50, for grand coup. 

78. Know and name 25 fish, for coup; 50 fish, for 
grand coup. 

79. Know and name 10 different snakes, telling 
which are poisonous, for coup; 20 snakes, for grand 
coup. 

80. Know and name 50 common toadstools or 
mushrooms, for coup; 100, for grand coup. 

81. Know and name 50 moths, for coup; 100, for 
grand coup. 

82. Know and name 25 butterflies for coup; 50 
butterflies, for grand coup. 

83. Know and name 50 other insects, for coup; 
100, for grand coup. 

84. Know and name 7 turtles, for coup; 14, with 
something interesting, for grand coup. 



PHOTOGRAPHY 

90. Make a good recognizable photograph of 
any wild bird larger than a robin, while on its nest, 
for coup. 

91. Make a good photograph of a partridge, 
drumming, for grand coup. 



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92. Make a good recognizable photograph of a 
wild animal or fish in the air, for coup, or grand 
coup, according to merit. 

93. Get a good photograph of any wild animal 
not looking at you, for coup or grand coup, accord- 
ing to merit. 



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